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Nov. 18, 1930. F. J. FUNKE 1,782,120

CONTAINER Filed Nov. '7, 1927 Patented Nov. 18, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANK J. FUNKE, OF LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN CONTAINER Application filed November 7, 1927. Serial No. 231,577.

,. The invention relates to containers.

An object of the invention is to produce a container having ordinary sides and an ordinary cover that may be readily removed,

disfiguring tearing of the membrane to get at the contents of the container.

Heretofore it has been customary to use transparent membranes for the purpose that are held in place by the use of adhesives, as glue, that are unsightly and expensive to manufacture. In my improved container no adhesive of any kind is used, the membrane being held in place securely by mere frictional clamping means, and making it in such a way that the usual cover may be removed with little liability to interfere with the holding means.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a cross section of the box including the cover, taken at any point in the length of the box between the ends.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the corner of the box as shown in Fig. 1, but without the cover.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the box showing the transparent sheet folded between the outer face of the inner wall of the box and the inner face of the clamping ring that holds the sheet to the box.

In the drawings the numeral 10 indicates an ordinary shouldered box having an ordinary bottom 11, and double walled sides comprising the inner wall 12 which reaches to the top of the box, and an outer wall 13 which reaches only a part of the way up, and leaves a shoulder 14 below the top of the box. The two walls 12 and 13 and the bottom 11 are pasted together, or held together in any suitable way to make them a unit. 15

is a transparent sheet of any suitable thin material to make a desirable transparent membrane, that is stretched across the top of the box and especially over the top of the inner wall 12, but is of larger dimensions than the dimensions of the inner wall so as to project therebeyond, and which are folded down against the outer face of the inner wall 12, as at 16, desirably not far enough to reach the shoulder 14 17 is arectangular clamping ring that is in inner cross section as large as the total width of the inner walls plus the thickness of the sheet of the transparent membrane and just enough larger, to permit of the slipping down over the outer face of the membrane with frictional contact and folding the membrane against the outer face of the inner wall with a'snug fit.

between the outer face of the inner wall 12 and the inner face of the ring 17 and without the aid of any adhesive of any kind.

It will noted that the thickness of the ring 17 is somewhat less than the thickness of the outer wall 13. 18 is an ordinary cover having side walls long enough to pass down over the outer face of the wall 13, and may if desired reach as far as the bottom of the box. It is desirable to have the inner face of the cover slidingly contact the outer face of the outer wall so as to have frictional adhesion thereto without touching the outer face of the ring 17 and leaving a space between them so that in removing the cover there need be no frictional contact of the cover with the ring that would tend to draw the ring upwardly out of true clamping position.

What I claim is:

1. A container having shouldered sides, with a transparent membrane extending over the opening therein and extending down the outside of the container above the shoulder, and a band snugly fitting the said sides and the downwardly extended portions of the membrane whereby to hold the said membrane in postion by frictional pressure. t e

lower edge of said band being seated on the shoulder.

2. A container having an inner wall reaching to the top thereof and an outer wall extending a part of the way to the top and defining a shoulder, a transparent membrane extending across the openlng into the container, a band snugly fitting the outer face of the inner wall and holding the edges of the membrane by frictional pressure between the outer face of the inner wall and the inner face of the band, the lower edge of said band extending down substantially to said shoulder.

3. A container having an inner wall reaching to the top of the container and an outer wall reaching a portion of the way upwardly to leave a shoulder, a transparent membrane extending across the opening of the container and down the sides of the container, and a band snugly fitting the outer face of the downwardly extending portion of the membrane, said band being thinner in cross sec tion than the thickness of the outer wall, and a cover fitting down over the outer face of the outer 'wall.

FRANK J. FUNKE. 

